Lest anyone forget N.C. State being dissed in the main stream media:
Midnight Nears for N.C. State
By Dave Kindred
April 3, 1983 at 7:00 p.m.
“ALBUQUERQUE, April 3, 1983 -- Trees will tap dance, elephants will drive at Indy and Orson Welles will skip lunch before North Carolina State finds a way to beat Houston in the NCAA's college basketball championship game Monday night. We might have added, speaking of unlikely, " . . . and the Easter bunny will offer an egg to a Nigerian soccer goalie." Except that she did.
“"Do you want an egg?" the bunny said as she hippity-hopped through a hotel lobby this morning. "Your ears, they are funny," said Akeem Abdul Olajuwon, laughing. Four years ago he was a soccer goalie in Lagos, Nigeria. Now the 7-footer is so famous, as the star of Houston's basketball team, that the Easter bunny is pressing favors on him.
“And with good reason, because Houston with Olajuwon is reckoned a cinch to win this national championship. After seeing what Houston did to Louisville--which is what Mount St. Helens did to unsuspecting trees--only zealots and lovers of stray dogs give N.C. State any chance.”
Once again, the sports media may need new tea leaves to read (or better glasses).